Vittorio Alfieri quotes
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“Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 148), 1922.
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“Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.”
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“First thoughts are not always the best.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 787-790), 1922.
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“Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.”
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“A usurper always distrusts the whole world.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 197), 1922.
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“If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Philip. Polynices. Antigone. Virginia. Agamemnon. Orestes. Rosmunda. Octavia. Timoleon. Merope. Mary Stuart”
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“There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.”
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“Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.”
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“Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works”
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“Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : Vittorio Alfieri (1815). “The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri”, p.128
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“Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : Vittorio Alfieri (1821). “Tragedies”, p.265
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“That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : Vittorio Alfieri, Charles Lloyd (1876). “Philip”
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“A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : Vittorio Alfieri (1815). “The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri”, p.245
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“The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : Vittorio Alfieri (1821). “Tragedies”, p.255
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“Necessity inspires the fatal thought.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works”
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“For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works”
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“Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 430), 1922.
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“Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 148-149), 1922.
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“To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 665), 1922.
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“Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : Vittorio Alfieri, Charles Lloyd (1876). “Philip”
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“The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : "Antigone". Play by Vittorio Alfieri, Act 2, Scene 2, 1801.
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“I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : "Reason for Changing his Democratic Opinions" as quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 93), 1922.
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“For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.”
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“Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 707), 1922.
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“The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.”
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“Liars are always most disposed to swear.”
-- Vittorio AlfieriSource : Vittorio Alfieri (1815). “The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri”, p.197
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